On 12/20/2014 01:56 PM, Sandy Widianto wrote:
When I install Linux I always choose manual partitioning, not automatic/suggested by installer / ext4 /home ext4 / swap
So, how big is your drive? These days its difficult to get OTS small drives; Tiger/NewEgg are doing 1T drives around the $50 mark for home/SMB types. The basic system can fit on 20G to 30G. The same logic of backup/containment that rationalized having a separate /home partition can be used to rationalise a separate /tmp (there are also recurrent security & management reasons for a separate /tmp); a separate /var; a separate /srv if you are actually running 'services'; and most certainly a separate /boot! I can make a good case for a separate /usr and possibly a separate /opt if you install a lot of 'custom' system-wide software. So, you don't know what sizes? That's why I use LVM. In practice I find that I have a lot of 5G 'partitions' under LVM. All of my email+mail archive is in one; all of MyDocuments are in another; similarly MyDownloads. MyMusic and MyPhotogrpahs are in a series of 5G partitions. It makes backing up to DVD easy. The alternative that I have on another machine is to have seperate /boot and /swap and the rest of the drive as one enourmous BtrFS. Ok, so that's sort-of a LVM, but managed differently. How big is YOUR drive? How big are your ROOT and HOME? -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org